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Mary Harris

Dr. Harris’ career spans several professions including scientist, senior public health administrator, entrepreneur/small business owner, advocate for equity in STEM innovation, television and radio producer and host, consumer health advocate, and non-profit board member. She has received numerous professional and community awards. Dr. Harris’ career highlights include:

•Experience in designing healthcare service delivery networks. Director of Genetic Services for the State of Georgia. Under her direction, Dr. Harris positioned genetics testing and...Read more

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Maria Wang of PPG Is AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient 

September 26, 2023
Photo: In addition to her technical leadership and mentoring of colleagues at PPG, Maria Wang participates in science education through activities such as PPG’s Colorful Communities outreach program.
October 4, 2023

Wang is being recognized for her significant contributions to the coatings industry.

DuPont’s Prime RO Team Is the 2023 Energy and Sustainability Award Recipient

September 26, 2023
October 2, 2023

The Prime RO Team is being recognized for developing five families of the world’s most energy-efficient reverse osmosis membranes and elements that will reduce global CO2 equivalent emissions by 85,000 tons per year.  

Representation and Inspiration: The LatinX in ChE Community

September 26, 2023
September 27, 2023

Gabriel Rodriguez, chair of the LatinX in ChE Community and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Colorado, talks about the group's aims and how it has already begun to make a difference.

David Bradwell

David Bradwell, Ambri co-founder and CTO, played a pivotal role in advancing the Liquid Metal Battery technology while he completed his M. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees and post doctoral fellowship at MIT. Together they conducted electrochemistry research into dozens of different battery technologies, including the formula that became the Ambri Liquid Metal Battery. 

David leads Ambri’s technical team to develop and commercialize the ‘Liquid Metal Battery’ technology, with a focus on creating a low cost, safe, and long-lifespan storage technology for grid-scale energy storage...Read more

Colin Wessells

Colin Wessells is the CEO at Natron Energy, which he co-founded in his Palo Alto garage in 2012 as a spin-out of foundational work performed during his PhD thesis. Over the past eleven years, he has led Natron’s sodium-ion battery product development from an early stage chemistry dream to a UL listed product deployed in industrial sites across the United States, while growing its team from one to one hundred-and-seventy.

He has raised over $130 million in venture capital investments and government awards. He also served as principal investigator for two ARPA-E awards and six funded...Read more

Julia Song

Dr. Song is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of ESS Inc. In this position, she has spearheaded the transition of the iron flow battery technology to becoming a commercial energy storage system. Prior to joining ESS Inc., Dr. Song was the Vice President of Research and Development at ClearEdge Power Inc., where she led over 20 cross-functional scientists and engineers on all corporate R&D projects and the commercialization of the 5 kW Combined Heat and Power Fuel Cell system. Dr. Song started her career at Milliken & Co. as an Industrial Research Chemist. Dr. Song has...Read more

Jie Xiao

Dr. Xiao is currently a Battelle Fellow and leads Battery Materials & System Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She is also a PNNL-University of Washington distinguished faculty fellow. Dr. Xiao’s research spans from fundamental research, battery materials scaleup and manufacturing, to cell fabrication and engineering for vehicle electrification, sensors, and grid energy storage. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and been named top 1% Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher since 2017. She holds eighteen patents in the area of energy...Read more

Celina Mikolajczak

As the leader of Lyten’s Battery Product Innovation Group, Mikolajczak is responsible for advancing the development of the LytCell™ lithium-sulfur battery to full commercial readiness and optimization. She brings decades of EV battery development experience from cell engineering and manufacturing positions at leading battery companies, including Tesla, Panasonic, and most recently QuantumScape.

Mikolajczak has a long history of researching and delivering commercially viable and qualified battery architectures to the EV marketplace. Her technical consulting practice at Exponent...Read more

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